[53] ‘It is not known what number of the Rebels were killed and wounded; but it is supposed that their loss was very considerable.’ Return of the commission, non-commission officers, drummers, rank and file, killed and wounded, prisoners and missing, on the 19th of April, 1775. 4th, or King's Own Regiment. Lieutenant Knight, killed. Lieut. Gould, wounded and prisoner. Three serjeants, one drummer, wounded. Seven rank and file killed, 21 wounded, eight missing. 5th Regiment. Lieut. Thomas Baker, Lieut. Wm. Cox, Lieut. Thomas Hawkshaw, wounded.1 Five rank and file killed, 15 wounded, one missing. 10th Regiment. Lieut. Col. Francis Smith, Capt. Lawrence Parsons, Lieut. Wald. Kelly, Ensign Jeremiah Lester, wounded. One rank and file killed, 13 wounded, one missing. 18th Regiment. One rank and file killed, four wounded, and one missing. 23d Regiment. Lieut. Col. Bery Bernard wounded. Four rank and file killed, 26 wounded, six missing. 38th Regiment. Lieut. William Sutherland wounded. One serjeant wounded. Four rank and file killed, 11 wounded. 43d Regiment. Lieut. Hall wounded and prisoner. Four rank and file killed, five wounded, two missing. 47th Regiment. Lieut. Donald McCloud, Ensign Henry Baldwin, wounded. One serjeant wounded, five rank and file killed, 21 wounded. 52d Regiment. One serjeant missing, three rank and file killed, two wounded. 59th Regiment. Three rank and file killed, three wounded.
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1 The Salem Gazette of May 6, 1776, states an officer of the Fifth regiment, whom it calls ‘Capt. Thomas Knight,’ died at Boston, the next day after the engagement, of the wounds he received in the battle, and that ‘he was greatly regretted, being esteemed one of the best officers among the King's troops.’ Also that twenty-three wounded soldiers lately died at the Castle, and that Lieut. Hawkshaw ‘was wounded in the cheek, and it is thought will not recover.’ A Lieut. Gore [perhaps Cox?] was ‘wounded in the arm.’—Gazette, May 5.
Boston: David Clapp and son. 564 Washington Street, 1880.
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